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400-mile electric British roadster: UK funds enable a glimpse of the future

Green Car Reports

At an event last week focusing on low-carbon and fuel-cell innovation, a consortium of four suppliers together revealed the Aura, a fully electric sports car that combines a series of ideas that may point to the future in which automakers put a higher priority on weight reduction in EVs.

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New record for largest Tesla light show clinched by owners in Finland

Teslarati

The event featured the track “Sandstorm” by Finnish artist Darude, and the Tesla light show’s massive scale is shown in the pair of videos, which were taken from on the ground. The videos show the massive fleet of Teslas flashing their lights in highly syncopated rhythms to the song.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

Aside from a box lunch, a couple of bottles of water and two absolutely delicious chocolate chip cookies, GCC received no compensation, expense reimbursement or branded merchandise from GM to attend the event. I was able to spend 10 minutes driving a Saturn Aura sedan with an (HCCI) engine system. Establishing four core brands.

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News: 2024 Volkswagen ID.Buzz

Clean Fleet Report

Observations: 2024 Volkswagen ID.Buzz The cool factor vibes and aura the ID.Buzz emits will be second to none on the road. In addition, we are often invited to manufacturer events highlighting new vehicles or technology. As part of these events we may be offered free transportation, lodging or meals.

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GM Previews First Two-Mode, Front-Wheel-Drive Hybrid Transaxle

Green Car Congress

Nitz also noted that the coming next-generation of the mild GM Hybrid System ( earlier post ), which in its current form is applied in the Malibu, VUE and Aura, will offer equivalent power to Honda’s IMA system in the new Insight.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

the big event was a demonstration by PARC researchers of the systems they had built. Xerox PARC had this aura of being a very far-out place. Every few years the Xerox Corp. has a meeting of all its managers from divisions around the world to discuss where the company may be going. At the 1977 meeting, held in Boca Raton, Fla.,

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